Foucault News

News and resources on French thinker Michel Foucault (1926-1984)

Mariana Canavese, Los usos de Foucault en la Argentina. Recepción y circulación desde los años cincuenta hasta nuestros días, Siglo XXI Editores, 2015 (English translation of text below) Michel Foucault es quizás el filósofo más citado en la Argentina y en el mundo; en sus obras hay palabras clave que atraviesan el discurso académico así …

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Miguelángel Verde Garrido, Contesting a biopolitics of information and communications: The importance of truth and sousveillance after Snowden, Surveillance and society, Vol 13, No 2 (2015) https://doi.org/10.24908/ss.v13i2.5331 Abstract This article aims to provide a novel conceptual understanding of the nature of the global mass surveillance policies and practices revealed by whistleblower Edward Snowden in collaboration …

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Michel Foucault and the smart city (2015) Francisco Klauser – Neuchátel University – from The Programmable City Video of paper Drawing upon Michel Foucault’s approach to power and governmentality, the paper explores the regulatory dynamics inherent in contemporary data-driven forms of regulation and management-at-a-distance of urban systems. More specifically, channelled through Michel Foucault’s concept of …

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